1916 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1916 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1916 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with an 8–1 record under first-year head coach Tad Jones. The team outscored its opponents by a combined score of 182 to 44 and suffered its only loss to Brown.[1] Yale guard Clinton Black was a consensus pick for the 1916 College Football All-America Team, and four other Yale players (ends Charles Comerford and George Moseley, halfback Harry LeGore, and a guard with the surname Fox) also received first-team All-American honors from at least one selector in 1916.

1916 Yale Bulldogs football
ConferenceIndependent
1916 record8–1
Head coach
Home stadiumYale Bowl
1916 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Army   –    9 –0 –0
Pittsburgh   –    8 –0 –0
Brown   –    8 –1 –0
Colgate   –    8 –1 –0
Yale   –    8 –1 –0
Fordham   –    6 –1 –1
Penn State   –    8 –2 –0
Wash. & Jeff.   –    8 –2 –0
Boston College   –    6 –2 –0
Cornell   –    6 –2 –0
Princeton   –    6 –2 –0
Lehigh   –    6 –2 –1
Dartmouth   –    5 –2 –2
Harvard   –    7 –3 –0
Penn   –    7 –3 –1
Temple   –    3 –1 –2
Tufts   –    5 –3 –0
Carnegie Tech   –    4 –3 –0
Rutgers   –    3 –2 –2
NYU   –    4 –3 –1
Syracuse   –    5 –4 –0
Rhode Island State   –    3 –4 –1
Geneva   –    2 –5 –2
Carlisle   –    1 –3 –1
Lafayette   –    2 –6 –1
Bucknell   –    3 –9 –0
Columbia   –    1 –5 –2
Franklin & Marshall   –    1 –7 –0
Villanova   –    1 –8 –0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 30 Carnegie TechW 25–0
October 7 Virginia
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 61–3
October 14 Lehigh
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 12–0
October 20 VPI
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 19–0
October 28 Washington & Jefferson
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 36–14
November 4 Colgate
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
W 7–3
November 11 Brown
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
L 6–21
November 18at Princeton W 10–0
November 25 Harvard
W 6–3

References

  1. "1916 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
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